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Pressure builds for Obama to link oil sands pipelines to climate change
2013-01-31 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: President Obama hasn't publicly drawn a connection between climate change and the Keystone XL pipeline, but new pressure is building on him and other officials to connect those dots. Protests are springing up from Maine to Washington, D.C. to Oklahoma urging leaders to stop the Keystone XL and other oil sands import projects on climate change grounds. The Texas-bound Keystone XL is the biggest of many projects being proposed to connect Canada's oil sands to U.S. refineries and export ports. Protesters...
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Canada: How Much Will Tar Sands Oil Add to Global Warming?
2013-01-23 18:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: James Hansen has been publicly speaking about climate change since 1988. The NASA climatologist testified to Congress that year and he's been testifying ever since to crowds large and small, most recently to a small gathering of religious leaders outside the White House last week. The grandfatherly scientist has the long face of a man used to seeing bad news in the numbers and speaks with the thick, even cadence of the northern Midwest, where he grew up, a trait that also helps ensure that his sometimes...
2 Reports on Oil Sands Paint a Dire Picture
2013-01-17 22:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline and the heavy Canadian crude oil that it would carry released two reports on Thursday asserting that the environmental impacts of the project are worse than previously estimated, and urged the Obama administration to veto it. One report, from the anti-petroleum group Oil Change International, finds that existing studies of emissions from mining, transporting and refining the oil from oil sands formations in Alberta fails to account for the impact of petroleum...
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Kinder Morgan increases proposed expansion of Trans Mountain oil sands pipeline to 890,000 bpd
2013-01-11 22:30:22| Green Car Congress
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New study concludes oil sands development has significantly increased PAH and DBT loadings in regional lakes; combined with effects of climate change, a new ecological state for the lakes
2013-01-09 12:30:34| Green Car Congress
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